>> in the last few minutes, barbara, we learned a lockdown at potomac high school in oxen hill was just lifted after prince george's county police say shots were fired near the school. now, this apparently happened around 9:15 this morning in the 1400 block of southview drive. this is in oxen hill. officers saying that when they got to the scene, it was clear there was a shooting, but that no one was shot. the shooter fled the scene, and because potomac high school, which is on boyd dale avenue, so close to where this happened, police say they were keeping the students and the faculty inside as a precaution the last hour and a half or so. as i mentioned before, the school is now back open. tracee wilkins is on the way to the scene. stay with news4 and nbcwashington.com online for developments in this breaking story. barbara? >> thanks, angie. >>> and it is day two after the latest winter storm and some school systems remain closed today. but warmer temperatures this morning should help with the melting. storm team meteorologist tom kierein joins us with the first forecast. tom? >> barba

all the potomac and anacostia crossings are doing just fine. here's the beltway in college park. so the outer loop as you just saw slows down beyond this point closer to the 95 silver spring. another live look. this time we're heading into virginia. this is the inbound side of 66 at route 50. your slowest stretch is going to be of course manassas to centreville. then beyond this as you head for vienna and the beltway. we'll wind a live look 270 southbound at father hurley. the delays extend 109 to 121 and then here again in germantown. mike, andrea? >> thank as lot, monika. >>> time to check in with our partners over at cbs this morning. >> that is the lovely gayle king. oh, it's the lovely norah o'donnell sitting in the anchor chair at new york this morning to tell us what's ahead. good morning, norah. >> good morning to you, mike and andre ya. i know gayle wishes she was here but she's on spring break. we're going to go to seth in malaysia. he was there as families angry stormed a press conference on flight 370. we'll look introwhy pilots have the power to turn off tracking tec

it's on this beautiful lake; piedmont's on the banks of the mighty potomac. bellagio has the pre-alps coming down to the left, hitting the lake; and we had the mighty allegheny mountains. and so by extension, i reimagined myself at home, and it was wonderful. and the girls were back in boston and so i wrote them a letter every day. so each chapter was called a date -- the first was july 10th, the second was july 11th -- and i wrote them 20 to 30 pages a day for two weeks. i lost 10 pounds doing it. i went down to milan and came back, and then i finished the first draft of the book over the next four weeks. it was quite exciting for me. c-span: by the way, how does somebody get to go to italy under the rockefeller aegis to do this kind of thing? >> guest: oh, you just contact the rockefeller foundation. they'll send you an application. it's quite competitive. but lots of scholars and creative writers and creative artists and potters and sculptors, dancers, musicians apply. i think there are 14 or 15 scholars and artists in residence at any given time and you s

all lanes on constitution avenue, rock creek and potomac parkways in northwest will be closed. you won't be able to use the southbound lanes of the arlington memorial bridge either. all streets along the race route will be closed between 7:30 this morning and 2:30 this afternoon. >>> and because of the race, metro opened two hours early today. rail service started about an hour ago. if you are headed to the marathon, use the blue and orange lines. you can get off at the federal triangle or smithsonian stations. you can also take the green and yellow lines and get off at the archive station. >> if you're going to be taking metro at any time today, on the blue line, trains will be running 20 to 25 minutes at the springfield station. the green belt station will be closed on the green line because of track work there. trains will be running every ten minutes on the red line. that will last from 9:00 a.m. until 9:00 tonight. and for a full list of the street closures and the metro schedule, you can head over to our website, nbcwashington.com and search street closures. >>> the searc

most of them are potomac edison customers in washington county, maryland. these local hops are in dire need of a driver with four- wheel drive. virginia hospital in arlington, sibley hospital. they need volunteers with four- wheel drive and the numbers are right there on the screen. >>> is the worst of the storm behind us and where is it now? the gang is all here. let's get right to the weather team. topper is here with us. howard is in the back. erica is in the back. you have been on top of this storm since last week. you hit almost exactly when you said it would. >> pretty close. the timing was good. the low end of the snow -- everybody got about 4 inches but we have scaled back a little bit south and west of town. no more 12-inch bands but still a pretty good snow south of town, especially for early march. >> yeah. >> it's technically meteorological spring. >> this could be the last bit of snow. we would be okay with that. >> just enjoy it for one day. >> you get one full day. >> how about another half-hour. >> exactly. it is going to wind down between h

. >> officials at potomac high school lifted a lockdown in place just as a precaution. police say around 9:00 this morning, officers responded to a reported armed robbery in the 1400 block in maryland. police are still on the scene investigating. now to a developing story in montgomery county. security is in place at montgomery counties rockville campus because of vague right there. a graffiti threat in the stairwell of the student stairwell warned school shooting. john has details on how the school is handling this. cornerse are posted on and driving around while extra security is mobilized throughout the rockville campus today. >> i'm concerned. it is upsetting coming -- coming to school and like hearing about this. i feel really uncomfortable. >> the message was found in a stairway wall. graffiti, school shooting, three 4. -- 3-5-1 teachering to class, my locks the door five mins after class. i will step away from the door. >> andrew had a long talk with his mom this morning about coming to school. many chose to stay home. >> it is scary when you have to come to scho

. >> the midst of a terrible tragedy on the potomac. again, we saw the spirit of america's heroism at its finest. lose heraw the woman grip on helicopter line, dived into the water and director to safety. [applause] >> my personal opinion is this. you deliberately stood before an empty house and challenged these people and you challenge their americanism. it is the lowest thing that i have ever seen in my 32 years in congress. >> we are on the brink of an acting an independent bill for the disabled of america. they will henceforth, i think, look to this day as the day when the president of the united states science is built as the independence day for those who have been disabled. >> the chair would like to ask my distinguished republican colleague if he would take the chair. will the gentleman please take the chair? [applause] >> first, mr. speaker, thank you for giving me the opportunity to wield the scalpel at least one time and actually sit in the chair. it was something [applause] . george w. bush of the state of texas has received

has we are rig on the potomac. we are overlooking spectacular views. that sells the area. the other interesting thing is that we have such density. for an does make interesting place. it encourages collabororation, innovation, all of tho things. it also attractsts the llennial's and the young workforce. are viewing it as a residential area. you e getting more o of a mix. have thenwn does not challengef nvinci people want to comome ere. people want to be ineorgetn. people it is easy to come to georgetown -- you ve great amamenitities. the harbor is incredle.. what are two or three of the businesses andnd projects yoyoue most exciteded about in terms of makingng it the place to be? >>>> people are most e excited t the transportation issues. making it easy by widening siwalks on the weeeekends, making a streetcar to the gegetown waterfront. we have been talalki to the folks s in rosslyn about doing a study for an aerial gondola. just like a ski lift, right over the riv, connecting rosslyn bi d with the georgetown bid. we are pushing metro to accelerate thehe blue line meo sta

. >> in the midst of a terrible tragedy in the potomac am a we saw the spirit of american heroism at its finest. her he saw a woman lose grip on the helicopter line, dived into the water and dragged [applause] her to safety. [applause] -- grantor to save the. [applause] youy personal opinion is elaborately stood on the well and challenged the people and challenge their americanism and it is the lowest thing i have ever seen in my 32 years in congress. ofwe're on the brink enacting an independent bill for the disabled of america. they will henceforth look to this day and the day when the president of the united states signs this bill as the independence day for those who have been disabled. >> i would like to ask the colleague to please take the chair. would the gentleman please take the chair. >> first, mr. speaker, thank you for giving me the opportunity to wield the gavel at least one time and sit in the chair. something to behold. >> george w. bush of the state of texas has received 271 vote. al gore of the state of tennessee has received 266 votes. they god bless our new presiden

. >> a district landmark has made its way across the potomac, ben's chili bowl opening its first locationin roslyn. morning,t in line this bill cosby. eating half in smokes since he worked for the navy and was in bethesda. critics call the 2014 oscars among the best award shows this spring. >> we will tell you who and why, coming up. >> we may soon have major developments in the so-called shadow campaign, which could have implications on the districts mayor race. >> another player involved in the shadow campaign for d.c. mayor vincent gray baby close to a plea deal. prominent businessman jeffrey thompson is in the final stages of talks with federal prosecutors. >> jay korff spoke with mayor gray tonight. he is at the wilson building. what did the mayor say? ignoranceor pleaded on what could be a significant development. >> i actually don't know anything about it, gentlemen. i guess we can speculate, but i really don't know anything about it. >> d.c. mayor vincent gray do not have much to say on the legal deal that was announced prior to the april 1 democratic primary that could have major

. >>> you're about to see something really different along the potomac. an attraction that will take you to new heights. this beautiful day just can't last. amelia siegel as the latest look on how much snow to expect. and coming up at 7:00, join liz crenshaw for a consumer watch special, from traveling on a dime to finding your bank's hidden charges, liz makes sense out o >>> a lot of people are taking advantage of this gorgeous weather and spending as much time as they possibly can outside. which went by national harbor this afternoon to check on the progress of the capital wheel. crews are hard at work putting the pieces together on this giant ferris wheel. when it's done, it's going to stand 175 a feet tall and at the top, you'll be able to see the mall, the white house and the capital. you'll be able to get inside and get on board starting in may. >>> this is one of the windy cities most notable st. patrick's day traditions, thousands of people came downtown to watch folks drop green die into the river. they have been doing this for 15 years turning t

. >> reporter: laura started cpr parties from her home in potomac.t took off and now they're happening across the country. a near family tragedy involving laura's young son clay was her inspiration. >> ashley was the one who saw clay. that's right. >> she pointed to the bottom of the pool. >> reporter: three years ago clay nearly drowned in a swimming pool accident. he tripped on a towel and fell into the deep end of the pool while being watched by friends. >> our friend was doing cpr on our son. he was blue and lifeless. the doctors, everyone said it was bystander cpr that saved him from having severe brain damage. >> reporter: clay was in a coma for three days but eventually made a full recovery. the scary situation was a wake- up call for laura who realized she could have been better prepared. >> i couldn't really understand why i didn't know cpr and i was kind of ashamed by it. >> reporter: so she made it her mission to prepare others for life threatening situations through her clay foundation, laura sets up the parties and works with rescue one

two of his former interior minister is being regularly updates and about the high court case the potomac or if at some of the probe into alleged illegal financing of socrates policy by france's richest woman. walsall could see himself as a team player. his appointment book remains in the hands of judges sons may prove decisive in other investigations. it now appears that the prominence high court's official cheap the seabed was hunting saw case his lawyer information about the court's thinking on the pirates in exchange. it appears he was having some crazy to help him get a new cushy appointments and monica according to them owns the place come to an unprecedented rate them as deep as home and office of the high courts. state prosecutors have now opened a criminal investigation into erupts practices and breach of court secrecy. soccer is his lawyer has courted the track to ensnared him and his posse and municipal elections in two weeks' time now facebook and youtube under threat in turkey and austria trip and everyone has warned his government could ban the popular show social networks a

tehran denies want to meet their arms but has agreed to temporarily potomac walk in exchange for sanctions relief as the sides was on a full appeal. schools of young people in washington d c having taken conference label flights ulster powerful winter storm shut down the city. the washington d c sniper look like association medical arts participants with respect to each with a toe in to see it. i may regret this in itself as the leader of a snow white students go there. i went to schools and government offices were closed and about two thousand two hundred and fifty flights were canceled it's horrible and that i heard the need of a financially her that there had to balance out the word smile. but our silverware that it is to get in trouble was it was to be good monthly status thus the leeches to pummel the eastern united states since december the cold weather is set to cost the american economy at least fifteen billion dollars while dozens of people being killed demonstrators have expressed support for ukraine outside the russian embassy in washington d c the activists rates the concerns o

it landed in potomac, maryland. my sister was born there, with carol weiss.efore we tell you what you won, we want to tell you why you've been chosen. carol has been a big "today" show fan, she developed what she calls a healthy obsession with the fourth hour. >> she worked our show into every aspect of her morning routine, has it set up in your kitchen, bathroom and bedroom so she doesn't miss a thing. >> carol, we like your house. can you hear us? >> yes, i can. >> hi, sweetie. >> and watches at the gym, clears her schedule at the office. this is not a healthy obsession. >> this is hysterical. i love it. >> they say her friends and co-workers know never to interrupt her. >> that means a lot to us, thank you. why? >> you make my day so happy. you put a smile on my face when i watch it. >> enough about joe manganiello. all right, you really seem to be dedicated so we wanted you to know we're so grateful and we have a trivia question for you, even though you already have won. you ready? >> which of the following is not a regular kathie lee and hoda segment. bo

potomac river to the right of the screen. on the horizon, that is prince george's county. 37. cloudy. light northeasterly breeze around 5 to 15 miles an hour. a little bit of sun has been trying to break through. also it's cloudy with a few sprinkles in charles county, st. mary's county. parts of calvern county. this has been a persistent little batch of moisture hanging in this morning. just a few scattered, very light sprinkles of light rain there will be around for maybe another hour or two. temperatures are well above freezing now in the mid and upper 30s, despite the cloud cover, it is in the upper 30s on the eastern shore and right around the metro area. farther to our west and north, much of the mountain region, shenandoah valley, most locations there above freezing. it's a little above freezing. panhandle of west virginia, northern part of the shenandoah valley. fredericksburg, culpepper, manassas. by the afternoon, we might get a few more breaks in the cloud cover. maybe a little sun coming up. overall, still quite cloudy. ought to make it into the low 40s in the metr

this is going to move right up toward myersville as it travels across the potomac.e got some other showers which are west of martinsburg. everything is moving off to the northeast right now. cold is still up in new england but it's being pushed out by the warmer temperatures. you see the upper 50s in charleston with 30s in upstate new york and new england. even that is going to turn to rain. we have a chill out there. we've warmed to 40 in laurel, columbia. eight 50e already in fairfax -- it's 50 already in fairfax. 48 at north beach on the bay. here we go. cloudy skies on our michael & son weather camera but good visibility, 49. a south wind at 13 giving us a little bit of a windchill. feeling like 44. rain showers on the west coast. just very unsettled. a big storm through the great lakes extending all the way to the gulf coast. this is what's going to throw some showers our way today. but with low pressure coming out of the gulf, a soggy saturday and a lingering sogginess if you will. showers on sunday. so yellow alert weekend coming up. sorry about that. 64 toda

ago, in theweeks midst of a terrible tragedy in the potomac, we saw again the spirit of american heroism at its finest. the heroism of dedicated rescue workers saving crash victims. ouraw the heroism of one of young government employees who when he saw a woman lose their grip on a helicopter, died into the water and dragged her to safety. [applause] >> find more highlights from 35 years of house for coverage on our facebook page. c-span, critter by america's cable company 35 years ago have brought you today by a public service by your television provider. next, a look at the investigation on whether the irs targeted certain conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. this is 35 minutes. host: rob woodall is our guest, a republican from georgia. a member of the budget committee and the oversight and government reform committee. he represents the 7th district in georgia. guest: the northeastern suburbs just outside gwinnett and forsyth counties. host: suburbs of atlanta. what is the economy like? guest: we are doing pretty well. there are folks who have taken a beating. if you are break

we've had the miracle on the potomac where an amazingly skilled pilot was able to put down an aircraftthe body of water. an aircraft on a southern ocean is fairly slim. the pilot was getting across the idea that the nation had to launch its biggest possible effort in case there were people out there still alive. and i think that's what's decided them to put this effort in. and it's possibly been construed even though the search coordinators have been stressing that it's only a possibility, by no means certain, that it's created the impression in some quarters that you know, we found it. well, we haven't. it is possibly part of the aircraft. it's possibly still afloat and they may find it. and then, they've got to go searching for rest of the aircraft. >> i think you made a really good point. this is not just a matter of searching. there is a huge amount of detective work as well. brendan thank you so much. rough seas and poor visibility are making this more difficult for the search crews. kevin corriveau has more. >> we had a frontal boundary that wet through, from wednesday to thursda

all of your potomac and anacostia crossings are innocent free right now. look outside. here's what it looks like if you're planning to head first of all south on 270 in from 121. this is where the pace picks up. it slow and heavy from frederick most of the way down 109 toward 121 where the pace picks up to the point where the lines divide. no issues on 355. let's go back to our traffic feature. if you're planning to head here across the american legion bridge, it's all green down into the tysons area. 66 is in good shape as well in from manassas and centreville. back to you guys. >>> a judge is expected to decide today whether to release charles severance on bond. he was arrested in west virginia last week on a warrant from loudoun county, virginia but investigators want to talk to him about the murders of nancy dunning, ron kirby and ruthanne lodato all in alexandria, virginia. you can get the latest developments in those alexandria cases right on your cell phone. just text the word "alexandria" to 25543. >>> the lieutenant at the center of an investigati

. >>> we start with the fireworks over the potomac this morning.orite attacks on the white house. no, i'm not talking about today's 50th vote to dund or repeal bicycle -- defund or repeal obamacare. happy birthday anyway, gop, your hatred of obamacare doesn't look a day over 49. no, i'm talking about the high drama of at all things a house government overnight sight hearing.

a little cooler by the bay and by the potomac. okay, this is a pretty big storm. doesn't look great right now, but it's going to become a big storm that will pull out of the rockies and that's going to be our wednesday storm. in the meantime, we're in pretty good shape. a shower activity to the south of us that went through earlier. all in all, a nice evening and nice tuesday. all these clouds continue to move off to the south and east in southern maryland now has cleared out. temperatures, a lot of 60s. 60 in chevy chase and fairfax. looking at 63 in leesburg. the farther west you go, the warmer it gets. closer to the water, only 59 in annapolis and low 50s and 59 toward waldorf. so just chilly tonight. everybody is going to be above freezing, even warmer tomorrow with some clouds. it's a good tradeoff actually. a wild wednesday. afternoon storms. some big winds wednesday night and plummeting temperatures. and then strong winds, if not damaging winds wednesday night and into thursday morning. we'll see winds gusting over 40 miles an hour. here's our future cast.

. >>> also, the tdr 50 features texas titans taking their turns at the conservative party on the potomacplus, a look at rising lone star state stars, and a chat with one who shared blunt thoughts about the reality of life in washington. >>> and at cpac, rolls on this morning. one red-blooded reaganite says republicans in washington look like a crime family instead of a party of ideas. yes, he's serious. yes, you can call him "surely." >>> good morning. it's march 7, 2014. we have breaking news at the top. >>> the jobs numbers are out after bumping along with pretty weak growth for the last few months, a little more of a solid number today. the economy added 175,000 jobs in february. it's the best number since last fall. the unemployment rate did tick up to 6.7%, meaning more people are getting back into the labor market. it follows two disappointing months and will certainly fuel hopes that perhaps we'll avoid another spring drop-off that has been -- it seemed like a cyclical thing we've been watching. in addition to the february figure, both the december and january numbers were revised

. >>> it's hard to judging from the meeting on the potomac the cpac just had.tay tuned to hear why. >>> plus, the tdr 50 heads west in the third week of our big year-long focus to the centennial state. democrats aren't just dominating denver. find out how demographics and domestic debates have carried colorado from red to blue in record time. >>> good morning from washington. it's monday, march 10th, 2014. this is "the daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. we've got a lot of breaking news to cover. so we're going to start with that first. here is the latest out of what we know or don't know of what's being called an unprecedented aviation mystery. it's malaysian air flight 370. it simply vanished from radar with 239 passengers and crew members on board early saturday. and investigators still do not have any substantial clues. a massive international search effort is under way as we speak, covering some 50 nautical miles. moments ago, malaysian investigators announced they're expanding the area to now cover a section of land areas along the coast of malaysia and the "

in that rough of the sea you wouldn't be landing on the potomac where it's nice and calm for example. you're landing in surf, in waves. >> the reason i ask that is because i can see it being double-edge sword here. a scatter point with a million pieces at least gives you the opportunity to have something floating and a lot more opportunities to spot something. one particular piece, a large piece, say almost the entire fuselage, that's one spot you got to find in that entire ocean. >> there's pluses and minuses to both. because remember those small pieces -- >> some of them float. >> some of them float. but look at the granulety of that picture there. that's not even that clear. so you can imagine if there were pieces of seats and other kinds of debris -- >> i have to wrap this one up because we are going to get to those other issues you talked about, but if this really is wreckage, what comes next? >> the next process is to find the scatter point and point of impact. the reason that's most important is because that's the most likely place to find everything else. >> and by the way, bo

assurance that he could do it all when i gave him command of the union army as low as the army of the potomac. the first to reveal a lincoln's great distress early in the war when washington d.c. was cut off from the north and the president was keeping an anxious vigil for the troops and said why don't they come. the biographer's offered unprecedented insight into linkage decision making in the investment a black soldiers and get an insider's view of this interaction of the union army at command. above all what they did was create a master narrative that continues to command serious scrutiny more than a century after its introduction. populating his cabinet with former opponents for the republican presidential nomination he demonstrated his discernment and magnanimity in choosing men who he did not know, recognize them as governors, senators, and statesman while they yet looked upon him as a simple frontier lawyer and a rival tomb chance had transformed the honored that they fell do themselves. effectively they presage the popular argument that begin formed the so-called team of rivals and in

. >>> we start with the fireworks over the potomac this morning. one of the gop's favorite attacks on the white house. no, i'm not talking about today's 50th vote to dund or repeal bicycle -- defund or repeal obamacare. happy birthday anyway, gop, your hatred of obamacare doesn't look a day over 49. no, i'm talking about the high drama of at all things a house government overnight sight hearing. the committee that has spent -- oversight hearing. committee that has spent your tax dollars and resources investigating the irs and its oversight for politically active nonprofit. committee chair isa is again led the attack as republicans try to find any proof that officials at the agency were directed to conduct audits of conservative groups that spent money in the last two elections. the republican conspiracy theory is that the audits were politically motivated, and they insinuate that they may have been directed by the white house. despite the incurable fever for this story on the right and in conservative media, issa's committee has yet to turn up any

totals, it was windy enough where it created so many problems at national airport across from the potomacin d.c., the they had a it tough time cleaning up runways. flights were canceled up and down. until about an hour ago they're just reopening there. if you look nationwide, 10,000 flights have either been delayed or canceled, mostly because of problems we're getting here in the mid-atlantic, philadelphia as well. david, liz, you talkedbout the statistics for a group called mass plight. they look specific at storms last few weeks what they cost airlines and passengers. passengers some $5.3 billion in lost productivity and costs to them because of all the flight cancellations and delays. on top of that half billiondollars to the u.s. airlines. that doesn't even include the storm we've had just right now. look at major airline stocks, they like everybody else in u.s. markets are down for the day but those costs really, really starting to eat into the economy here as we continue to get hit by these winter storms. guys, the roads, they don't have all that much snow on them. they are wet. les

right on the potomac river. that is where cpac is having its 41stl conference, the annual. sponsored by the american conservative union. david keene is the long-time chair of the american conservative union. 1984 to 2011? guest: that is right. host: what have you been doing? thet: i served two years as president of the national rifle association. i have been serving as editorial editor of "the washington times." american conservative union -- did you helped to found that? thet: it was founded in late 1964, right after the goldwater campaign. bill buckley was crucial in putting it together. at that time, you can imagine after the goldwater loss, there was a big effort to put things back together. the acu was the result. , fromin those 50 years goldwater to some of the speakers you have today out there at cpac, how has conservatism changed? then, it was a small group. the first cpac was held 40 one years ago here in washington, the speaker was ronald reagan of california. there were about 100 people in attendance. 211,000 today, we have people in attendance. cpac has grown. j

iraq i was joined earlier by retired brigadier general david rice he's the vice president of the potomac institute for policy studies strategy and planning division i started by asking him how he felt when he first saw those videos of the mutilated bodies back in two thousand and four. i was in anbar province at the time when it happened obviously first of all the iraqi people most of those that i dealt with didn't really back those actions it was a mob mentality they regret it happening but it was one of those situations that got out of control of course and if somebody could have pushed the pause button at that time it would have been ideal unfortunately you can't do that when things get out of control scene it was the worst thing that probably could have happened at that time but events are what they were exactly in the timing of it so poignant right when all of that was going on back in two thousand and four to have this go viral on the internet it changed the game for a lot of people to understand what was going on on the ground now that the war is officially over and thousands of c

. >> just two weeks ago, in the midst of a terrible budget on the potomac we saw again the spirit ofamerican heroism at its finest. savinged rescue workers crash victims from icy waters. we saw the heroism of one of our government employees, who would theaw a woman gripped in helicopter line dived into the water and dragged her to safety. [applause] >> find more highlights from 35 years of house floor covered on our facebook page. c-span, created by america's cable companies are the five years ago. rocky today is a public service by your television provider. next an update on afghanistan with the special or general who oversaw reconstruction. this is from the atlantic council. it is about an hour and a half. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm the director of the south asia center at the atlantic council and behalf of my colleague and our president, i'd like to welcome all of you to this very important session with special inspector general for afghanistan restriction, john f. sopko. as we all know the political and military transition has begun in afghanistan. this is going to be a very

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i see what you're saying ok retired brigadier general david reiss he is the vice president of the potomac institute for policy studies strategy and planning division thank you very much. state sponsored hackers are more and more taking aim at journalists according to reuters to go google security engineers have found that twenty one of the world's top twenty five news organizations have been the target of likely state sponsored hacking attacks but it's not just known companies like forbes or the new york times doing battle with pro-government hackers most email malware attacks direct the user to web site the tricks them into giving up credentials we've all seen those sorts of things well as it turns out journalists are massively over represented as targets that include citizen bloggers and citizen journalists and bloggers of course around the world and the hackers were overwhelmingly government sponsored the problem is the news organizations have been relatively slow to respond to this problem. the spotlight is on crimea again as it plays host to its first high ranking visit from moscow p

he was joined by greg valliere, chief political strategist with potomac research at an economic policy conference of the national association for business economics. this is about 50 minutes. >> i am just so honored and privileged to have two very good friends, charlie cook and greg valliere, to talk about political situation in washington. actually, i was here during the shutdown at the imf meetings and i visited both of them and i had never seen either one of them as quite disgusted at our democracy at that point in time but i appreciate their time and spending time with me. and i get, i listened to these, both of these people every day actually. i get their stuff and i find unfortunately as an economist, they matter more than almost anything else i've done in the last couple of years. their ability to handicap not only the elections and what is going to come from the elections but also policy and what will and will not, mostly will not, be passed. they both have extraordinary resume's and careers here in washington and as political handicappers, greg also works with don kohn, a frie

. >> host: about 15 miles south of the capital is national harbor maryland that's right on the potomac river and that is where cpac is having their union and david is the longtime chair of the american conservative union what, 1984 to 2011? is that when you served as chair? panic that's right. what have you been doing since then? >> guest: i served as the president of the national rifle association and in the last eight or nine months i have been serving as the editorial and a penny -- opinion editor. >> host: did you have to found that? >> guest: i wasn't at the founding. it was founded actually in the late 1964 right after the goldwater campaign. bill buckley was crucial as puttinatputting it together ande time you can imagine after the loss there was a big effort to try to put things back together. >> host: in the 50 years from goldwater to some of the speakers that you have today how is conservatism changed in your view? >> guest: back then it was a small group if you will. when the first cpac withheld 41 years ago in washington, the speaker was ronald reagan of california and ther

unquote could do it all when lincoln gave him command o of the union army as well as the army of the potomacthey were the first to reveal lincoln's great distress our early in the war when washington, d.c. was cut off from the north, and the prison was keeping anxious vigil for the troops and she said, why don't they come? the biographers also offered unprecedented light into lincoln's decision-making on anticipation and elizabeth of black soldier soldiers and theyn incentives to of his interaction with the union army highest command. of all, what they did was create a master narrative that continues to commit series of scrutiny more than a century after its introduction. populating his cabinet with former opponents for the republican presidential nomination, lincoln demonstrated his discernment and magnanimity in choosing in the quote he didn't know. he recognizes them as governors, senators and statesman, while they yet looked upon him as a symbol frontier lawyer at most, and rival, given chance to transfer the honor they felt due to themselves. effectively they presage the popular argued

. >> two weeks ago in the midst of a terrible tragedy on the potomac, we saw again the spirit of american heroism at its finest, rescue workers saving crash victims from icy waters and we saw the heroism of one of our government employees lenny scotty who when he saw a woman lose her grip, dived into the water and dragged her to safety. [applause] >> find more highlights of 35 years of floor coverage on our facebook page. c-span created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought to you today as a public service by your television provider. >> good afternoon. everybody ready? we're going to have some folks who will move out at 5:00 on i think it's a hearing on ukraine. we're ready to start. we welcome secretary johnson for what marks his very first appearance with the subcommittee. thank you for being here. looking forward to your testimony and we're going to talk about the president's budget request for homeland security for fiscal year 2015. you well know documents that reflect the administration's priorities. so when we look at your budget a blatant r fy-15 is disregard for s

it was buried in the fort myer military base just across the potomac. you can visit these days. don't recommend visiting with a shovel. the pr guy tells me don't try digging. everything is now under 30 feet of topsoil but for the record if you drive in here and park and take a walk and you stand between the child development center in the softball field you will be standing where much of the white house was buried. mingled with the debris of the pentagon and dumped in a hole and covered up. now i don't want to end on a downer and the fact is despite the reproduction furniture and the loss of artifacts, the house was saved and much of the work that was done was truly first rate. the beautiful brocade wallcovering on the left. caldwell and company was still in business and they restored their chandeliers. truman returned to the house on march 27, 1952 and while his private feelings about the job were mixed. in his diary he said he himself could have done it faster and for less money -- just one of the things i love about harry truman but he was also a politician so his public pers

ability to cooperate effectively with private companies and private individuals, i'm left almost like potomac history with 40-foot high solid walls on either side. i can say that the street look safe if i can't speak to the folks in the neighborhoods i can't help but make the neighborhood safer. we have to find a way to to more effectively and efficiently have private players of companies and people be able to tell us what's happening on their systems and for us to tell them that we see and do it at machine speed in a way that addresses the concerns of the private sector. i was the general counsel of two different companies, and private companies want to understand it would cooperate with the government, and we have liability issues? are there privacy issues? what are the rules that govern that sharing? we could use some guidance from congress for the private sector on how to work better with us. >> industry leaders such as ceo of visa have adopted baby and the embedded microchip standard for euros credit card, p.i.n. and chip by securing compromised magnetic -- we all know about the target c

. >> just two weeks ago, in the midst of a terrible tragedy on the potomac, we saw again the spirit of american heroism at its finest. i heroism of dedicated rescue workers saving crash items from icy waters. we saw the heroism of one of our young government employees, who, when he saw a woman lose her grip on the helicopter line, dived into the water and dragged her to safety. [applause] >> more highlights from 35 years of house floor coverage on our facebook page. c-span, created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought to today as a public service by your television provider. smith, morning, alex chair of the college republican national committee, and natasha pollzie discuss a new discussing millennials and adulthood. from theua landis university of oklahoma discusses syria and the influence of al qaeda. yale to student from university discusses his field experiment to test whether the offices of members of congress are more likely to grant access to construe bidders -- contributors than constituents. you can join the facebook commerce nation and twitter as well. "washi

right on the potomac river. that is where cpac is having its 41stl conference, the annual.onsored by the american conservative union. david keene is the long-time chair of the american conservative union. 1984 to 2011? guest: that is right. host: what have you been doing? thet: i served two years as president of the national rifle association. i have been serving as editorial editor of "the washington times." american conservative union -- did you helped to found that? thet: it was founded in late 1964, right after the goldwater campaign. bill buckley was crucial in putting it together. at that time, you can imagine after the goldwater loss, there was a big effort to put things back together. the acu was the result. , fromin those 50 years goldwater to some of the speakers you have today out there at cpac, how has conservatism changed? then, it was a small group. the first cpac was held 40 one years ago here in washington, the speaker was ronald reagan of california. there were about 100 people in attendance. 211,000 today, we have people in attendance. cpac has grown. just

. >> all right, chief political strategist as potomac research group, thank you. >> you bet. >> paul taking the anti poverty programs, the house budget committee chairman unveiled his budget report monday criticizing government spending on 92 programs that provide low income subsidies on food, housing and education. ryan claims with $800 billion spent on these programs, the poverty rate remained steady over the past 50 years. >> texans are going to the polls today, casting ballots in the first statewide primary in this year's mid term elections. aljazeera is in dallas. she seems to have the weight on her shoulders. >> texas has not had a democratic governor for two decades. they see wendy davis as a viable candidate. she will win today's democratic primary, she's fired up the base. most insiders forecast her losing to greg abbot by double digits in november. democrats say this election season is early and they hope to carry the momentum forward. >> this is the dallas county democratic party. >> the phones are ringing off the hook. the pizza is flying out of the box. the headquarters

. >>> it's hard to judging from the meeting on the potomac the cpac just had.the centennial state. democrats aren't just dominating denver. find out how demographics and domestic debates have carried colorado from red to blue in record time. >>> good morning from washington. it's monday, march 10th,

. >>> also, the tdr 50 features texas titans taking their turns at the conservative party on the potomacghts about the reality of life in washington. >>> and at cpac, rolls on this morning. one rebl

in the two weeks ago midst of a terrible tragedy on the potomac, we saw the spirit of american heroismt its finest. the heroism of rescue workers saving crash victims from icy waters. ouraw the heroism of one of young government employees, a woman losehe saw her grip on the helicopter line, dived into the water and dried her to safety. dragged her to safety. [applause] >> more highlights from 35 years of house floor coverage on our facebook page. c-span, created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought to you today as a public service by your television provider. " continues.journal guest,ob woodall is our a republican from georgia. a member of the budget committee and the oversight and government reform committee. he represents the 7th district in georgia. northeastern suburbs just outside gwinnett and forsyth counties. host: suburbs of atlanta. as the economy like? doing pretty well. there are folks who have taken a beating. if you are breaking ground on a new home in forsyth county, you coming inoffer bids as ground is being broken. we have great growth. host: what is s

then crossing the title potomac. the southern batch should be in southern charles county as well in about 45 minutes. around 6:45 this morning. low clouds over washington now sunrise. 6:32. the live view from our shadow watcher camera. by 8:00 that light mix to our south and still hovering around 30 degrees. mid 30s by noontime. rain south and east mainly during the afternoon. have an umbrella with you, though. could get a little light rain in the metro area too midday into the afternoon. now not seeing any increase in our traffic this morning. >> that's right, tom. that's because of two incidents. first we will start with i-95 traveling northbound near joplin road. here's that accident we were just talking about. now, reportedly multiple vehicles i can tell you that the -- police are saying it's just property damage. no injuries reported. folks are getting by on the right side of the roadway, but it is causing a delay. back over into pennsylvania avenue. the left lane still blocked by a broken down car. delays -- he

and along the potomac river, there was enough moisture in the air to create a lot of frost on these trees, photograph near lovettsville, virginia, this morning. quite a scene there. sunshine through high clouds into the mid 20s in washington. nearby suburbs around 20 degrees, as is montgomery, fairfax county. culpepper got down to 7 below this morning. now it's 21 above. ta's warmed up 28 degrees in the last several hours and should make it up to around the freezing mark by mid afternoon. that's 20 degrees colder than average this time of year. barbara? >> thank you, tom. >>> the cold weather could be to blame for a tractor trailer accident on the dulles toll road this morning around 6:30. chopper 4 got the video of this semi stranded by the main road and off ramp. it's one of these accidents that turned out to be a slippery morning commute. chuck bell has been monitoring the sometimes dangerous roads in the storm team 4 by 4 all morning. chuck, how are the roads looking now? >> the big roads are fine, capital beltway and most of the numbered state roads are improving very rapidly. as you